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Jeffrey Bell-Hanson

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson

Music Director of the PLU Symphony Orchestra; Professor of Music

Pacific Lutheran University

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson began his seventeenth season as Music Director of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He has conducted orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the United States and in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, including the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Olympia Symphony, the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, the Vratza Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Bulgarica.

Published Articles

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The Musician's Vocation

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson

No. 48 · Fall 2018

Bell-Hanson argues that musicians, who exercise profound influence over the emotional flavor of a moment, are called not merely to technical proficiency but to a sense of vocation: understanding their art well enough to use it responsibly, to intend truthfulness rather than manipulation, and to articulate its significance in dialog with other disciplines.

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson

Published Articles

The Musician's Vocation